Initially KIW was taken over the plant from Kalinga Industries Ltd. On 01.04.1963
with one furnace having capacity of 30,000 M.T. of pig iron per annum. Subsequently
three more furnace have been installed and the initial furnace No.1 has been modernized
during 1999 increasing it’s production from 90MT to 170 MT/day with volume increase
to 100 M3.During the year1998 with the help of MECON the stack height increase was
done to furnace No IV by increasing it’s production from 72 M3 to 85 M3.subsiquently
similar stack height increase was done to furnace No.II in the year of 2003-04 and
furnace No-III in the year of 2002-03.

The date of commissioning and installed capacity of furnace are as under :

Date Of Commissioning

Installed Capacity (per annum)

Furnace No.I :

05.10.1999

60,000 MT (After Modernization)

Furnace No.II :

01.04.1969

40,000 MT

Furnace No.III :

01.02.1971

40,000 MT

Furnace No.IV :

29.03.1991

40,000 MT

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Total:180000 MT

The company has Captive power plant with four unit of T.G.
Sets having 4 MW capacity each, total 16 MW by utilizing B.F. Gas.

The date of installation and addition of capacity is as
under :

4 MW Capacity

11.05.1968

8 MW Capacity

23.11.1968

4 MW Capacity

13.05.1996

Total:

16 MW capacity

Spun Pipe Division was commissioned during March,1982 with capacity of 31,200 M.T(3
Shift operation ). The actual achievable capacity in two shift operation is 21,000
MT per annum.It has five nos of spinning machine producing various size s of C.I
pipes ranging from 80 mm to 400 mm dia.This division has three nos. of induction
furnace having 3.5 MT capacity each and one holding Furnace having 18 MT capacity.

The company has achieved highest production of 1,47,456 MT hot Metal during 2006=07
and monthly highest production of 14,249 MT(HM) during August 2001.Spun Pipe Division
has achievedhighest production of20616 MT during1997-98 and highest monthly productionof 2228 MT duringNovember
1998.The year of highest sale of Spun Pipe is 1999-2000 – 22255 MT. The year wise
production,
Sale , Turnover and profit/loss both for PID and SPD separately enclosed.

Presently the capital investment (Gross Fixed Assets) as on 31.03.2007 for both
PID and SPD is RS 106.30 crore. Total numbers of regular employee are 1179 as on
30.09.2007 including 83 nos deployed at corporate office. Besides, there are 1034
nos. of Supply/Contract laborers working in the plant regularly.